Over the next few Mondays we thought we’d introduce you to The Good Book Blog team. A little glimpse behind the screen to the people who type away week by week … First:
Helen Thorne, Blog Editor
An unlikely member of the blog team (given that a year ago she’d never actually read a blog post let alone written one and has a general disposition of extreme techno-phobia), Helen oversees the day to day running of the blog at Good Book. Her main role is to bring order out of the many and varied ideas that seem to spontaneously ooze from the creative team members!
A Christian since 1989, she’s worked at Good Book since 1999 which officially makes her an “old-timer”. She has resigned – twice – but keeps coming back and now accepts there is no escape from these hallowed walls.
As well as looking after the blog, she manages the Open Bible Institute – Good Book’s distance learning college. It’s a role she loves because it combines her passion for theology with the opportunity to get to know at least some of the 900 students enrolled on the courses.
When not at work, Helen attends Christ Church Kingston where, among other things, she plays the piano most Sundays. She’s a trustee of Capital Youthworks a Bible-centred youth work charity which runs events like Sorted. She’s active in local politics and is attempting to do a doctorate in the field of teaching parables (though it’s probably not a good idea to ask her how that’s going just now!).
But Helen is probably best known for her irrational love of all things cute … She is regularly mocked for her over-zealous affection for the 3 felines (psycho-cat, dim-cat and barge-puss) with which she shares her home … and rumour has it that it is only a matter of time before she buys her first micro-pig.
